Hakeem Jeffries remains the same guy. We always thought he was a guy who does the donor's bidding and in this case, keeps those elected to lead the American people rich while the rest of us get crumbs. House minority leaders actively undercutting a bipartisan effort [00:00:16] to finally, finally ban members of Congress from trading individual stocks. I know you have a lot to say about this one. We'll get to the details and the tactics, but your $0.02, Jake. So I just mainly want to tell people this is a really interesting story, [00:00:34] because it shows you how Democrats pretend to be on your side while actually being against you. Now, this is a play that they've run hundreds of times, but this is a good example of it. So let's pay attention to what they do here to be able to pull that trick off. [00:00:50] Here it is. For years, of course, we've talked about how corrupt this is. 80 to 90% of the public wants this ban. There's actually momentum. A discharge petition started by Republican Anna Paulina Luna had 74 signatures, including 15 Republicans. [00:01:08] If every Democrat signed on, it would force a floor vote, and this could very well become well, law that easy. Finally. But instead of taking the win for the American people, Jeffries got to work introducing a spoiler bill. His team is telling members not to sign the petition, instead back his bill, [00:01:28] which adds a key component. It's a ban for the president and vice president. It is a nonstarter, though, of course, for Republicans who would never sign on to that, effectively killing all chances. Any real reform gets done. It's all by design. [00:01:46] Anyone who mistakes Minority Leader Jeffries efforts as well-intentioned, extra toughness on the unfair practice of basically insider trading from members of Congress. He'd only to recall recent history involving then House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's trading ban effort. That was back in 2022, not that long ago. [00:02:05] That time it extended to the Supreme Court, which also derailed bipartisan momentum. As Dylan Hettler Gaudet of the Project on Government Oversight puts it, this is exactly what Pelosi did a few years ago. This is not only an unserious effort, it's an attempt to undermine and kill off [00:02:26] the only bipartisan legislative vehicle that is gaining momentum. It is really bad faith all around. Now, according to reporting from the American Prospect, Jeffries team is telling outside advocates to get in line with the leadership or risk losing access in the future. [00:02:43] They're literally threatening people to prevent a popular anti-corruption bill from passing. Consider that. And let's just take a look, shall we, at the person they put at the front of this? It is Representative Seth Magaziner, the lead on the Democratic side [00:03:00] for the bipartisan bill. Yet he's the one sponsoring Jeffries, Partizan distraction Hakeem Jeffries, Mike Johnson are playing games blaming each other, of course, while ensuring their members can still profit from insider information. [00:03:16] American public is left alienated, of course, once again disgusted too. They'd rather have a campaign slogan to yell about in 2020, than a law that actually stops the corruption when it comes to political insider greed. There are not two parties, of course. Just one. [00:03:33] And I'm wondering, I mean, I see them as not even particularly creative here. It's kind of lazy, like they're running the same play. You don't even have to scout the other side. Yet this continues, and I don't know what can either wake up the American public or, you know, [00:03:50] they're distracted with just affordability issues, but get people to call it out and get real change here. It seems like this will never change. Yeah, we need more brave representatives like Ro Khanna. I mean, he's like a one man army, but it'd be nice if there was 3 or 4 of them. [00:04:06] Maybe they could take different avenues. This is the hardest one because it's pointing out the hypocrisy or the lies of a fellow Democrat. And in Washington, that's considered like way worse than anything you can imagine. [00:04:21] Like, to them, like us authorizing the death of hundreds of thousands of people is not anywhere near as bad as being impolite to a fellow Democrat. So let me explain the game that's being played here first. So on the surface, if when Hakeem Jeffries comes and goes, I'm trying to hold Trump [00:04:39] and Vance accountable. The voters go, yeah, we want to hold Trump accountable. That sounds like a good idea right? So that sounds like a win for them. And and so they say plus look at the Republican hypocrisy. They say Congress should not be able to trade stocks, [00:04:56] but the white House should be able to. We get people on our side. But the reality is totally different. The reality is, yes, the Republicans are hypocrites. I'll come back to them in a second. So but whether they are or aren't, they're not going to vote for the bill [00:05:12] that includes the white House in it. Hakeem Jeffries knows that. He inserts that not out of naivete, but purposely to tank the bill to make sure it doesn't pass because he doesn't want it to pass. Now here's a counter proposal, for example, that could easily get this done. [00:05:32] You say yes to this bill. You got the 15 Republicans, you all vote on it. And you, the Democratic Party looks like it's anti-corruption because it literally passed a bill that was anti-corruption. A minority Republicans agreed with you. The entire Democratic Party agrees we should be against corruption, [00:05:48] and that would get 90% of the job done. At that point anyway. And that is very rare because almost never do Republicans cross over. Here we have a beautiful opportunity for Republicans to cross over to our side in terms of at least anti-corruption policies and get a huge win. [00:06:07] And then after that, there's nothing stopping you from introducing a bill saying, hey, since we just passed it for Congress, it should also apply to the white House. So it's a trick, guys. There's no reason why you couldn't do that after you get 90% of the job done. [00:06:25] It's just that the Democrats in Congress want to be able to trade on stocks, and maybe they have a legitimate argument, but they've never made one. Instead, they've pretended they're in favor of this while quietly, secretly killing it off. [00:06:41] And so what we need, Sharon, is, in this case, like establishment media, has covered up all the crimes of the corporate Democrats and corporate Republicans. Right? So if you talk about this in establishment, [00:06:57] they never even talk about this. But if they talked about it, they would tell you that Hakeem is fighting for the Democratic voters, and Hakeem is an amazing leader and a masterful legislator and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, right? No, we need more people calling BS. So we've been doing it for 20 [00:07:13] straight years, and we've been battered by the Democratic leadership. And guys, whenever I say the Democrats are lying to you, etc., of course, I mean the politicians and the leadership, they're lying to their own voters. The Democratic voters are the ones we have to protect, along with all the voters. So, and but you can't like so far, [00:07:33] online media has not been able to, at least on the left, been able to overwhelm establishment media. And now we're making a lot more headway. Now people realize Democratic leadership sucks, as we've been telling them this entire time. They take donor money like we've been telling you this entire time. [00:07:49] They're corrupt, like we've been telling you, etc. But it still hasn't crossed the tipping point in my opinion. So but the way you get into establishment media is you get esteemed legislators to say it on the record. So, for example, if AOC came out and said what Hakeem Jeffries is doing is [00:08:05] ridiculous, we should take the win, apply the stock ban to Congress, and then introduce a bill to go get Trump advance. We hit both birds with one stone. But she won't say that because then, oh, she has offended Hakeem Jeffries. [00:08:22] She's been naughty and all the other Democrats will yell at her. And Mainstream media will yell at her, and she doesn't want that. She doesn't want that fight. She doesn't want to be uncomfortable, that's why. And I say AOC because she's a big example of it, but apply to literally everyone else in Congress, minus Ro Khanna and Bernie Sanders. [00:08:41] Where are they? So they'll never oppose Hakeem. So this is just going to go around and around and our own voters, Sharon, honestly get lied to more than the Republican voters do because at least the Republicans fight within themselves. And you get to hear the two options right on our side. [00:09:00] We're like a voice in the wilderness going, they're lying to you. They're never gonna do the policies, and we can prove it like we do in this case. And the rest of the media and politicians are like, bow your heads. Otherwise you support Trump. Make sure that the corporate donors win. [00:09:17] Right. There's a little bit of a rebellion. I hope the rebellion gets much, much larger. Every time you ring the bell below, an angel gets his wings. Totally not true, but it does keep you updated on our live shows.